Tensions spill across universities like Columbia and Harvard as students on each side accuse the other of a kind of bloodlust

Tensions spill across universities like Columbia and Harvard as students on each side accuse the other of a kind of bloodlust

To one side, Columbia students stood silently, wrapped in the blue and white of Israel as they gripped pictures of the murdered and abducted. Across the grass and brick divide, a slightly larger cohort of students chanted “Free, free Palestine.”

The faultline between the two ran along the claim by each that the other was pursuing a kind of bloodlust – a charge that has divided university campuses across America in the wake of the bloody Hamas attack on Israeli communities and Israel’s ongoing military assault on Gaza.

Reactions within US universities to the killing of at least 1,300 Israelis and the abduction of about 100 more have swung from celebration of the Hamas assault as a legitimate act of resistance to occupation to condemnation along with a demand that it not be used to ignore the deaths of Palestinians killed in Israel’s retaliation on Gaza.

  • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
    942·
    9 months ago

    The Enlightened Centrist who absolutely MUST make sure others know that they are. For smugness.

    • MetaCubed@lemmy.world
      22·
      9 months ago

      I strongly believe that in this case, being on the side of the civilians in all cases is not enlightened centrism…it’s just the correct side… Do you think the civilians of one side deserve retribution?

      Siding with the Israeli government is to support Netanyahu and his fascistic genocide of the Palestinian people

      Siding with Hamas (Hamas =/= Palestine) is to support violent extremists.

      • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        I never took a side. I called out smugness. Not everything in life boils down to two sides that people MUST be on.

        • MetaCubed@lemmy.world
          1·
          9 months ago

          I don’t think I ever said or implied that there was only two sides to this conflict or anything else in life and if that can be inferred from my comment then I need to edit it for clarity.

          But to be clear, you did take a side. It just happens to be against whatever smugness you’re interpreting from those who are only for the civilians in this conflict.

      • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        I commented about smugness and nothing else. Try gathering more brain cells.

    • GladiusB@lemmy.world
      8·
      9 months ago

      Oh no! People want other people to work things out where everyone is accounted for and taken care of. How evil. Big ick.

    • S_204@lemmy.worldEnglish
      107·
      9 months ago

      There’s an old proverb that goes ‘Better to be an enlightened centrist than a miserable prick’.

      Not sure what reminded me of that.

      • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        Can you comprehend this is about having to announce yourself? People have an incessant NEED to point out what enlightened centrists they are. Its up there with vegans always letting you know they are.

        Hint: some of us also may hold similar views as you, but we don’t go around announcing it at every opportunity.

        • S_204@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          9 months ago

          The only one here running around announcing themselves here is you.

          Don’t worry Bud, we all know you’re a moron. You can stop telling us.